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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.